Alte Liebe

Ever since retiring, Harry does nothing but grumble, drink wheat beer, and tend his delphiniums. Or so Lore thinks. She clings to her job as a librarian, organizes embarrassing readings, and reveres her poets like prophets. Or so Harry thinks. For a long-married couple, they talk an awful lot—and usually mean something else entirely.

When their daughter Julia announces her third wedding, a quarrel is inevitable—yet it is merely the tip of the iceberg. A lot accumulates over forty years of marriage. Under the surface, tensions simmer: unspoken questions, old jealousies, arguments over Harry's lethargy and the necessity of a pressure washer. While Harry tends his garden, Lore dreams of another life, of travel, of new horizons. Feeling depleted, she wonders with growing urgency: Was that really all? What opportunities did she miss? Is it too late at over sixty for a fresh start? Harry drinks his beer, smokes, stays quiet. And yet he notices her distress.

A wise love story about two people meeting each other anew after forty years of marriage. Sharp-witted, ironic, sentimental, cheerful, and tender.

Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Elke Heidenreich and Bernd Schroeder, director Andreas Dresen and screenwriter Laila Stieler tell the moving story of two people who discover after four decades of marriage that it is never too late for change.